Term ended Oct 29, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 17, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jun 8, 2026.
Held by Waystar Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jun 4, 2010 as application 12/794,358 · Granted May 6, 2014
Base term plus 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 29, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2003
Oct 17, 2003
Term ended
Oct 29, 2023
Oct 29, 2023
Granted
May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
12
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,655,685, to Oct 29, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
3
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 12 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 17, 2003, when application 10/688,363, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 4, 2010) | Oct 17, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +12 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 29, 2023 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,655,685) | resolves to Oct 29, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jun 8, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 29, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,739,132 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,719,057 | this patent Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,655,685 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 20, 2010 Reel 25014, frame 742 | Denny, James McCahill, JR.; Bridge, Thomas Craig; Edwards, Shawn Kevin; Bradly, Kenneth Paul | Navicure, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2010 Reel 25018, frame 992 | Denny, James McCahill, JR.; Bridge, Thomas Craig; Edwards, Shawn Kevin; Bradley, Kenneth Paul | Navicure, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 1, 2016 Reel 39062, frame 750 | Navicure, Inc. | Antares Capital LP, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 7, 2017 Reel 44936, frame 477 | Antares Capital LP. | Navicure, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents at Reel/Frame No. 039062/0750 |
| Nov 10, 2017 Reel 44696, frame 814 | Navicure, Inc. | Antares Capital LP. | First Lien Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Nov 13, 2017 Reel 44429, frame 171 | Navicure, Inc. | Antares Capital LP. | Second Lien Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 22, 2019 Reel 50786, frame 417 | Navicure, Inc.; Zirmed Inc.; Connance, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Oct 22, 2019 Reel 50786, frame 572 | Navicure, Inc.; Zirmed Inc.; Connance, Inc. | Glas Americas LLC | Security Interest |
| Oct 23, 2019 Reel 50807, frame 633 | Antares Capital LP, as Collateral Agent | Navicure, Inc. | Release of First Lien Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 23, 2019 Reel 50807, frame 892 | Antares Capital LP, as Collateral Agent | Navicure, Inc. | Release of Second Lien Security Interest in Patents |
| Nov 10, 2020 Reel 54372, frame 64 | Navicure, Inc. | Waystar Technologies, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Nov 13, 2020 Reel 54409, frame 461 | Navicure, Inc. | Waystar Technologies, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,655,685, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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